Date Finished: January 1, 2018
Page Count: 370
Genre: Fantasy
Well, this
book sucked. The series started out on a high note and slowly began to fall
ever so slowly into a boring collection of words that I no longer care about
(except for the fact that Alyss x Dodge happened at the end which it kinda
ironic if you’ve been keeping up with my reviews). What was so bad about the
book you ask? It failed to keep my attention in the long run and thanks to the
disaster of the second book, I had little to care about in the final
installment of the series. The book was so bad I actually didn’t read it
completely. Yes, I admit it, aside from the first thirty pages or so, I skimmed
through everything other than a few eye catching conversations and significant
events that would help me keep up with the story. I’d feel bad for doing such a
thing if I actually cared about the book but I didn’t. There’s not much I have
or want to say about this book, but I can tell you what made the book on its
own too boring for me to enjoy.
ArchEnemy picked up where Seeing Redd left off, which was showing
how everyone in Wonderland trying to cope with the loss of imagination. I
personally hated this about the second book (everyone losing their imagination)
but if I were just to look at the loss of imagination in ArchEnemy, I still think it lasted for far too long in my opinion.
The imagination-based battles were what I loved most about the series so
removing it for the beginning resulted in two bad choices. One effect was Alyss
becoming a more a dull character than she was in Seeing Redd. Sure, she got to understand those without imagination (like
her love interest) more and experience what it’s like to not be able to rely on
her powers, but it also caused the second poor choice of the battles only being
technology based!! That’s taking away one of the crucial fun parts of the
story!
My interest
in the characters also decreased as they simply went about doing war activities
and preparing for battles for a lot of the first part that I fully read.
Normally I wouldn’t get upset about this, but I feel like there are too much meaningless
actions and not enough decent character development, or enough new and interesting
info being given to the readers. I was already loosing interest in the
characters in the previous book, try not to make me care even less in the final
book.
To be honest, I feel
as though my loss of interest in this book can be traced to Seeing Redd at its roots, and then a
failure to keep things interesting and fresh yet still remain true to the
series roots. Guess it’s no surprise this review is so short then and the fact
that I don’t recommend anyone to read this book due to the lack of new ideas
and interesting plot/characters. Just read the first book and none of the sequels
in the series okay? Spinoff books are okay though as I read Hatter Madigan Ghost in the H.A.T.B.O.X which was a nice fresh take on the character of
Hatter as a young boy and didn’t seem to be a poorly retold version of Alice in Wonderland. Not going to review
the book here though because I only have so much break time and so much time to
do nothing. All you need to know is that it’s really good and far better than ArchEnemy in my opinion.
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